Robert Deane Pharr (1916–1989[1] or 1992[2]) was an African-American novelist.
[3][4] Pharr attended Saint Paul's Normal and Industrial School, Lincoln University, Virginia Union University and Fisk University,[2] but spent most of his career working as a waiter.
[1] He graduated from Virginia Union University in 1939, and did graduate work at Fisk, Columbia University, and New York University.
[5] He described his goal when he started writing as to be a "black Sinclair Lewis".
[1][6] A draft of his novel Giveadamn Brown and related correspondence were given to the Archives and Special Collections Department, L. Douglas Wilder Library, at Virginia Union University.